…and more importantly, where is that setting stored so I can turn it on for all of them?

I realize this varies according to OS, so I’m specifically asking about my Turnkey Nextcloud and Turnkey Mediaserver containers, which are based on Debian Linux. It’s perhaps worth noting that my Turnkey Syncthing container, which uses the same base OS, does register its hostname with my DHCP server. I’ve gone digging around in /etc/ etc. in each of the containers, but so far I haven’t found any configuration differences that would explain the difference in behavior. (Also, if it matters, my DHCP server is the one included with OpenWRT and running on my router.)

By the way, I’m aware that the best answer might be “you have an X/Y problem and you really ought to use static IPs and/or setup a reverse proxy,” but I haven’t gotten to that point yet. Besides, I still want to satisfy my curiosity about DHCP and hostnames regardless.

EDIT: to be clear, this post is about LXC containers running directly in Proxmox, NOT Docker.

  • Morethanevil
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    61 year ago

    You can pass hostnames in docker compose easily with

    hostname: myhostname

    Sometimes you can use container names too

    container_name: myapp

    It is that easy ☺️

    • @grueOP
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      I’m asking about LXC containers, not Docker containers.

      • Morethanevil
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        Okay this is easy too to set a hostname on debian or ubuntu Container:

        hostnamectl set-hostname myname

        • @grueOP
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          31 year ago

          root@syncthing ~# hostnamectl status
          Failed to connect to bus: No such file or directory

          • Morethanevil
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            41 year ago

            Try this

            apt-get install libpam-systemd

            Restart LXC afterwards and try again. Let me know if it works now 🐱